War threat: Danjuma calls for Dokubo, Tompolo’s arrest

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus
Danjuma (retd.), has called for the arrest of an ex-
Niger Delta militants, including Mujahideen
Dokubo-Asari and Government Ekpudomenowei
(akaTompolo) for threatening to declare war
against the nation if President Goodluck loses the
February 14 election.
Danjuma, who described the threat as “unguarded
and reckless,” warned that “miscreants” must not
be allowed to hold the country by the jugular.
Dokubo-Asari, had at a meeting on Friday at the
Bayelsa State Government House, Yenagoa, urged
an end to what he termed, the intimidation of the
Ijaw by other Nigerians.
“For every Goliath, God created a David. For every
Pharaoh, there is a Moses. We are going to war.
Every one of you should go and fortify yourself,” he
said.
At the meeting were Governor Seriake Dickson,
Ekpudomenowei, Victor Ebikabowei (aka Boy Loaf),
the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta
Affairs, Kingsley Kuku and the President General,
the Ijaw Youth Council, Udengs Eradiri.
Boyloaf also said at the meeting that if the North
succeeded in regaining power on February 14, the
people of the Niger Delta would take their oil back.
However, Danjuma while inaugurating the
Kwankwasiyya City alongside Kano State Governor
Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Wednesday wondered why
Dokubo-Asari and Ebikabowei were heating up the
polity.
He reminded them that since Nigeria and its
resources belonged to everyone, no one must hold
the government to ransom.
The former Defence minister, therefore, urged the
necessary government agencies to immediately
arrest the ex-militants.
“You should arrest Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Boyloaf
and other Niger Delta militants for making reckless
statements, which in any way does not mean
keeping Nigeria as one entity. They create a war
situation.
“Those were reckless statements coming from
irresponsible individuals; they should be
condemned and arrested immediately,” he said.
In a situation like this, the issue of entrenching
peace in the country is what is needed most. We
should not allow some miscreants to hold us to
ransom,” he said.
Danjuma, who served as a Defence minister during
the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, added,
“Nigeria belongs to everybody and we must do
everything possible to safeguard her unity.”
He also asked politicians to stop making
utterances capable of overheating the polity.
The former minister said, “As we are approaching
election time, we must strive to ensure that
important issues are thoroughly discussed but not
personalities. We want to have a perfect election
where no one would have an axe to grind with
anybody.
“Once politicians base their campaigns on issues
not personalities and avoid anything capable of
causing disaffection, I am confident that we would
have foul-free elections.”
He commended Kwankwaso for providing physical
infrastructure in the last four years and described
the Kwankwasiyya City as one of the modern
edifices in the current democratic dispensation.